live cattle
Cows still standing
Live cattle refers to beef cattle that are alive, as opposed to slaughtered or processed.
The term appears primarily in agricultural markets and commodities trading, where live cattle futures are contracts for the future delivery of fed cattle ready for slaughter.
Live cattle prices rose on strong demand from meatpackers.
- beefBovine meat for eating
- beef industryCommercial meat production sector
- grass fedRaised eating forage
- herdGrazing animals together
- ranchingOperating a livestock farm
stockyard · grazing · pasture · feedlot · slaughter · commodity · futures · stock market · auction · branding · branding iron · corrals · steers · heifers · bulls · calves · drovers · rustling
- beef tradebeef prices, beef market, beef cuts, frozen beef, grass-fed beef
- commoditiesgold, silver, oil, crude oil, natural gas
- Futures Tradingfutures, futures contract, futures contracts, futures trading, futures exchange
- meatsbeef, chicken, pork, ham, mutton
- cropsmaize, wheat, rice, corn, potatoes
- Pacific Exportscoal, iron ore, bauxite, beef, seafood
commodity form
live cattlefrozen beef
Preserved cattle meat
dried beef · beef jerky · corned beef · ground beef · leather
live, cattle, lived, lives, living, alive, lively, livelihood, outlive